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Obama's budget eyes health costs, cigarette tax
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next year under the health care law the GOP has bitterly fought to repeal. But the...
Tags: Health Insurance, Republican Party, Health Insurance Cost, Barack Obama, Nursing Homes
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Common sense on Plan B
Last week, a federal district judge in New York ruled that girls younger than 17 should be allowed to purchase the Plan B contraceptive pill over the counter. Unlike the Obama administration, Judge Edward Korman got this one right. The 2011 decision by...Tags: Health Organizations, Health Treatments, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Barack Obama, Family Planning
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Court ruling lifts age limit on morning-after pill
President Obama once fretted about the prospect that girls as young as 10 or 11 could walk into a drugstore and buy emergency contraception pills as easily as "bubble gum or batteries." With his blessing, the Department of Health and Human Services...Tags: Health Treatments, Benadryl (drug), Chemical Industry, Justice System, George W. Bush
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Teen contraception decision: Doctors say science trumps politics
Science trumped politics, but politics may still present problems for teens trying to purchase emergency contraception. “A lot of stuff is going to happen over the next 30 days,” said Dr. Cora Breuner, a pediatric medicine specialist at...Tags: Health Treatments, Chemical Industry, Justice System, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice
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Health care follow-up
One of our readers contacted our editor to let him know that Gov. Corbett sent a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicating that PA would be opting out of the Medicaid Extension portion of the...Tags: Health Insurance, Christianity, Medicaid, Religion and Belief, Government Health Care
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In budget fight, sky is falling again
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it's a good time to be alert for sky-is-falling hype....
Tags: Women, Infants and Children, Air Transportation Industry, White House, Lobbying, Budgets and Budgeting
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GOP governors embrace Obamacare
WASHINGTON -- "It is not a white flag of surrender," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said. This was technically true: Scott did not wave a banner of any color when he announced Wednesday that he wants Florida to expand Medicaid, a key piece of Obamacare....
Tags: Rick Scott, Health Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Jan Brewer, Barack Obama
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Corbett’s Medicaid Mire Campaign Fodder?
Capitol IdeasYo, If you see smoke coming from the Capitol on Tuesday, don’t panic. It’s senate Democrats trying to light a fire under Public Welfare Department to get Gov. Tom Corbett to accept Medicaid expansion that is being offered under the...... -
Health reform's changes stir worries as they take shape in Md.
State lawmakers put finishing touches last week on plans to apply federal health care reforms in Maryland come Jan. 1. But who becomes newly insured — and at what cost —still worries stakeholders as the state speeds toward becoming one of...
Tags: Health Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Barack Obama, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Medicaid
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Corbett unswayed on Medicaid expansion after Sebelius meeting
Call Washington BureauPennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's face-to-face meeting Tuesday evening with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius did not convince the governor to accept the federal government's Medicaid expansion offer. Corbett, in a statement...Tags: Tom Corbett, Government, Health Insurance, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Executive Branch
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Was Obamacare a mistake?
A study released this week by the nonpartisan Society of Actuaries estimates that insurance costs on the individual market will rise 32 percent on average nationwide within three years as a result of changes mandated under the 2010 law known as Obamacare....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Justice System
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Obamacare deadlier than predicted
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speculates that the 2010 healthcare law may lead to higher costs for select services ("Some healthcare costs may rise when Obamacare implemented," News, March 26). Her realization follows a March...Tags: Instrument Engineering, Health Insurance Cost, Manufacturing and Engineering, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics
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